Vigilante justice lands Turkish rape victim in jail - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
A young Turkish woman had murdered her rapist, beheaded him and tossed
the head in the village square. Pregnant with the rapist's child, she
was barred from having an abortion. She would later place the child in
state care. She is now in jail, serving a life sentence. The case has
stoked fundamental questions on the Turkish judiciary’s approach to
women, the media’s sexist language, the weight of a woman’s account in
cases of abuse and the say the state and fathers have on the fate of an
unborn child.
